Tom Thumb Weddings

I've been searching for information on the history of Tom Thumb weddings, and I've compiled the things I've found in a rough draft form.A Tom Thumb wedding is a pageant where children act out the marriage ceremony. They were popular in the early 1900s, inspired by the 1863 wedding of General Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton) and Lavinia Warren. There were various scripts, with brides named Jennie June or Lillie Putian.Here you can learn about some famous court dwarves, the ancestors of the Tom Thumb wedding pageant, as well a little about the lives of women like Electa Chase and May Burnworth, who made their money traveling around America, directing these Tom Thumb plays.